Abstract instructions

A) TopicsThe theme for the meeting is "Sustainable oceans in theory and practice." Abstracts for presentations on any topic relevant to marine ecology will be accepted, including:

Anthropogenic Impacts

Arctic Ecosystems

Biological Invasions

Behavior

Benthic Ecosystem Services

Biodiversity

Chemical Ecology

Climate Change

Coastal Ecosystem R esilience

Community Ecology

Conservation and Management

Deep Sea Biology

Ecophysiology

Ecosystem Functioning & Sustainability

Evolution

Habitat Sustainability & Restoration

High Energy Beaches

Life History Strategies

Living Shorelines

Macroecology

Metapopulations/Population Genetics

Molecular Ecology

Recruitment/Larval Ecology

Reef Ecology

Resilience of Coastal Ecosystems

Sustainable Fisheries

Trophic Relationships & Resilience​

Brevity is the Soul of WitThe organizing committee for the 46th Annual Benthic Ecology Meeting has re-established the “Brevity is the Soul of Wit” session as part of this year’s meeting program. To demonstrate their boundless wit, they have asked me (as a witless wonder) to moderate the session. I, now, ask you to consider submitting an abstract to this wonderfully thought provoking session.

Talks are on any topic of interest to the meeting, they are 15 minutes in duration with 5 minutes allocated to the actual presentation and 10 minutes allocated to discussion. As a rough guideline, speakers are asked to limit themselves to five slides (or clicks of the mouse) to ensure that they stay within the allotted time. We really want time for quality discussion and feedback, so bring your A-game and your best ideas.

Because this session is a bit non-traditional, abstracts submitted to “Brevity is the Soul of Wit” will not count against the one abstract limit for the presenting author. (So, come on, you’ve got nothing to lose!)

If you recall, Peter Petraitis brought this idea to BEM 2013 and Pablo Munguia moderated this session in 2014. Both sessions led to very spirited discussions (and contributed to at least one publication*). This format is great for getting new ideas into circulation or getting community feedback on timely topics.

If you have any questions about the session please contact me (Chris Finelli) at finellic@uncw.edu. To help identify the content of the email, please include “BEM-BSW” in the subject line.